Chris Hedges – The Unz Review Aug 23, 2025
As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels. Israeli tanks and fighter jets pummel neighborhoods to drive Palestinians who remain in the ruins of the city to the south.
It will take months to turn Gaza City into a parking lot. I have no doubt Israel will replicate the efficiency of the Nazi SS Gen. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, who oversaw the obliteration of Warsaw. He spent his final years in a prison cell. May history, at least in terms of this footnote, repeat itself.
As Israeli tanks advance, Palestinians are fleeing, with neighborhoods such as Sabra and Tuffah, cleansed of its inhabitants. There is little clean water and Israel plans to cut it off in northern Gaza. Food supplies are scarce or wildly overpriced. A bag of flour costs $22.00 a kilo, or your life. A report published Friday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classifications (IPC) , the world’s leading authority on food insecurity, for the first time has confirmed a famine in Gaza City. It says more than 500,000 people in Gaza are facing “starvation, destitution and death”, with “catastrophic conditions” projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis next month. Nearly 300 people, including 112 children, have died from starvation.
European leaders, along with Joe Biden and Donald Trump, remind us of the real lesson of the Holocaust. It is not Never Again, but, We Do not Care. They are full partners in the genocide. Some wring their hands and say they are “appalled” or “saddened.” Some decry Israel’s orchestrated starvation. A few say they will declare a Palestinian state.
This is Kabuki theater — a way, when the genocide is over, for these Western leaders to insist they stood on the right side of history, even as they armed and funded the genocidal killers, while harassing, silencing or criminalizing those who decried the slaughter.
Israel speaks of occupying Gaza City. But this is a subterfuge. Gaza is not to be occupied. It is to be destroyed. Erased. Wiped off the face of the earth. There is to be nothing left but tons of debris that will be laboriously carted away. The moonscape, devoid of Palestinians of course, will provide the foundation for new Jewish colonies.
“Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to…the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,” Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich announced at a conference on increased Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
All that was familiar to me when I lived in Gaza no longer exists. My office in the center of Gaza City. The Marna boarding house on Ahmed Abd el Aziz Street, where after a day’s work I would drink tea with the elderly woman who owned it, a refugee from Safad in northern Galilee. The coffee shops I frequented. The small cafes on the beach. Friends and colleagues, with few exceptions, are in exile, dead or, in most cases, have vanished, no doubt buried under mountains of debris. On my last visit to Marna House, I forgot to return the room key. Number 12. It was attached to a large plastic oval with the words “Marna House Gaza” on it. The key sits on my desk.
The imposing Qasr al-Basha fortress in Gaza’s Old City — built by Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the 13th century and known for its relief sculpture of two lions facing each other — is gone. So too is the Barquq Castle, or Qalʿat Barqūqa, a Mamluk-era fortified mosque constructed in 1387-1388, according to an inscription above the entrance gateway. Its ornate Arabic calligraphy by the main gate once read:
“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful. The mosques of God shall establish regular prayers, and practice regular charity, and fear none except God.”
The Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City, the ancient Roman cemetery and the Commonwealth War Cemetery — where more than 3,000 British and commonwealth soldiers from World War I and World War II are buried — have been bombed, and destroyed, along with universities, archives, hospitals, mosques, churches, homes and apartment blocks. Anthedon Harbor, which dates to 1100 B.C. and once provided anchorage for Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman ships, lies in ruins.
I used to leave my shoes on a rack by the front door of the Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldest mosque in Gaza, in the Daraj Quarter of the Old City. I washed my hands, face and feet at the common water taps, carrying out the ritual purification before prayer, known as wudhu. Inside the hushed interior with its blue-carpeted floor, the cacophony, noise, dust, fumes and frenetic pace of Gaza melted away.
The razing of Gaza is not only a crime against the Palestinian people. It is a crime against our cultural and historical heritage — an assault on memory. We cannot understand the present, especially when reporting on Palestinians and Israelis, if we do not understand the past.
History is a mortal threat to Israel. It exposes the violent imposition of a European colony in the Arab world. It reveals the ruthless campaign to de-Arabize an Arab country. It underscores the inherent racism towards Arabs, their culture and their traditions. It challenges the myth that, as former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak said, Zionists created, “a villa in the middle of a jungle.” It mocks the lie that Palestine is exclusively a Jewish homeland. It recalls centuries of Palestinian presence. And it highlights the alien culture of Zionism, implanted on stolen land.
When I covered the genocide in Bosnia, the Serbs blew up mosques, carted away the remains and forbade anyone to speak of the structures they had razed. The goal in Gaza is the same, to wipe out the past and replace it with myth, to mask Israeli crimes, including genocide.
The campaign of erasure banishes intellectual inquiry and stymies the dispassionate examination of history. It celebrates magical thinking. It allows Israelis to pretend the inherent violence that lies at the heart of the Zionist project, going back to the dispossession of Palestinian land in the 1920s and the larger campaigns of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 and 1967, does not exist.
The Israeli government bans public commemorations of the Nakba, or catastrophe, a day of mourning for Palestinians who seek to remember the massacres and expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians carried out by Jewish terrorist militias in 1948 for this reason. Palestinians are even prevented from carrying their flag.
This denial of historical truth and historical identity permits Israelis to wallow in eternal victimhood. It sustains a morally blind nostalgia for an invented past. If Israelis confront these lies it threatens an existential crisis. It forces them to rethink who they are. Most prefer the comfort of illusion. The desire to believe is more powerful than the desire to see.
Erasure calcifies a society. It shuts down investigations by academics, journalists, historians, artists and intellectuals who seek to explore and examine the past and the present. Calcified societies wage a constant war against truth. Lies and dissimulation must be constantly renewed. Truth is dangerous. Once it is established it is indestructible.
As long as truth is hidden, as long as those who seek truth are silenced, it is impossible for a society to regenerate and reform itself. The Trump administration is in lock step with Israel. It too seeks to prioritize myth over reality. It too silences those who challenge the lies of the past and the lies of the present.
Calcified societies cannot communicate with anyone outside their incestious circles. They deny verifiable fact, the foundation on which rational dialogue takes place. This understanding lay at the heart of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Those who carried out the atrocities of the apartheid regime confessed their crimes in exchange for immunity. By doing so they gave the victims and the victimizers a common language, one rooted in historical truth. Only then was healing possible.
Israel is not only destroying Gaza. It is destroying itself.
Dr David Cohen has admitted for some time
there was no jewish holocaust
its like the astronauts on the mon the covid scam etc
The longer Netanyahu and Israel survive their atrocities unchallenged the more the Epstein sex ring becomes real.
Clueless article, making the West, Serbia, Nazis bad, and the Jews “Western”, because of his favouritism in the Race War:: if you are White, these foreign articles are not helpful to you
There was no Jewish Holocaust! How can Israel, one of the world’s foremost military powers, be at war with defenceless, starving Palestinians, and be mentioned in the same breath as Germany, which in WWII fought against the world’s greatest military powers, the USA, Russia, China, the British Commonwealth countries and their allies, and the world’s Satanic Zionist and fanatical warmongering Jews, the Devil’s Lying children, who created WW1, WWII and the Jewish Holocaust propaganda to destroy Germany and its Christian civilisation in an attempt to create a Satanic Zionist World. Now we have Zionist Occupied Governments controlled by the Zionist of the Beast, Jews of the Anti-Christ, the Devil’s Lying Children and the Devil’s disciples members of the Chabad.
The HAARP climate weapons stories are as phoney as the Jewish Holocaust hogwash, they are ment to mislead you and decieve you. End time truth.
There has been and still is a ‘holocaust’ ongoing by the few humans we ironically call ‘Elite’ who steal everything from real humans under the guise of government, which is nothing more than an organized crime syndicate. . Will ‘we’ collectively wake up? I have little hope.
pray Chrtis Hedges what atrocities did South Africa commit pre 1994 – your inference being whites which is totally erroneous? and what atrocities since 1994 have been committed? SA country’s economy has tanked and if exchange rate is to go by in 1970 the exchange rate was ZAR2 to the £1. Today it is ZAR23 to the £1 – a serious decline in confidence. The greatest prime minister of South Africa was Hendrik Vervoed (and subsequently PK Botha) who was assassinated. Perhaps you can inform all of us as to the REAL. At his funeral over 250k black africans lined the cortage saying he made it rain for them(I assume you understand the meaning).
PS. Germany’s enemies in WWII included the Soviet Union, worldwide communist organisations, child trafficking and pornographic groups and organisations, bankers, MSM, illegal drug suppliers, and anyone the Jews could bribe or blackmail. Adolf Hitler, within days of being elected, ended Germany’s child trafficking industry, pornography organisations and bankers’ stranglehold on Germany’s finance and banking. So, Hitler is verified as the world’s most evil man, and Churchill, a vile, monstrous, treacherous traitor and paedophile, is declared a war hero.
“As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians”
It’s those nasty wascalry Nazis again. With a name like Unz, what would you expect. He must be buddies with Carl Jones.
in Mexico they have burned the israhellish
embassy . should be done in the whole world .
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY MEXICANS
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY YEMENIS
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY VENECUELANS
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY LATINS
fuck white sleepy coward assholes !
derek rutter you nailed it 100%
well said
we got together and offered kier starmer his own rent boy in hid pink bondage trousers, if he would stop the nonsense and ship back the migrant armies
he could have had the use of carl jones back side for as long as he wanted
I think it’s fair to say Chris Hedges is a Limited Hangout. Bit of a windbag mostly full of hot air.
Israels Assassination on memory? Talking about Nazis? Incitement of hatred? Turning the world of unworthy animals into a C-class Bollywood movie? One does not need to go further. In Jermany (or Australia, UK & Jeurope, Canada, etc, etc, etc it is quite easy to document the chosen brainfrogginess of the modern “post human organism” that participates in global kosher Democracy.
“Chemnitz/Dresden – The neo-Nazi, convicted of incitement to hatred, among other things, is in prison behind bars. Sven Liebich (54), who has since become “Marla Svenja Liebich” and described as a woman, is to begin his prison sentence on Friday evening. According to the current status in the Chemnitz women’s prison. But Liebich is to go back to the Psychologists!….Right-wing extremist Liebich, convicted of incitement to hatred, insult and defamation, among other things has according to the court “categorized refugees as rapists” at his demonstrations, as well as for the sale of baseball bats with the inscription “deportation helpers”.
https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/fall-liebich-trans-nazi-soll-zum-psychologen-68a6ea1c229c582f68419a1f
And of course he/she/it has demanded right away kosher food, a rabbi and a press conference because it is Jewish.
“Israel is not only destroying Gaza. It is destroying itself”. Yeah right Chris Hedges it really looks that way!
There was so much mis-information from Hedges concerning the “nazis” and the Holocaust hoax, I couldn’t read the rest of it. These many journalist/writers who pen this stuff should know better after all these decades after WW2.
I wonder if the latest attack on that hospital in Gaza where 20 people were murdered including 5 journalists is a ploy to take focus away from what Israel is doing right now in Gaza city?
God help Gaza.
Gaza has revealed the true nature of the exclusive Jewish psyche. When it comes to outsiders few of them have any moral limits. Their policies are not just anti-Christian with an historical track record of trying to rid the world of Christ. Rather at the heart of things they capitalize on generating hate, just like in finances where they are experts at making money on debt and driving things down so they can scoop them up into their coffers. They engineered 9/11 mainly to generate hate against the Arabs, and now that they feel so secure in owning most assets on the globe, and with their control of the media and our government’s in the West, with Gaza they no doubt will use these instruments to identify, persecute, hate, and wipe off the face of the earth, everyone in opposition, deeming them as anti-Semitic and their “enemies”. But more and more people are now asking if that process has has not been going on for a long time.
To the most powerful Jews and ghouls such as Trump, Gaza is simply a win-win exercise just like 9/11. Yet, the ground they think the have won is now cursed against them by the spilling of innocent blood, and more and more people are changing their views about the legitimacy of Israel itself. Where once a two-state solution seem tenable to most, we are now far beyond such deceit. Even if most of those who call themselves “Jews” in Israel had a genealogy in common with the ancient Hebrews, which they DO NOT HAVE, they still had no right in the 1940’s to invade the place and start their ruthless ethnic-cleansing operations, all done incidentally with the blessing of ZOG UK and ZOG USA, the same nations that have been clearing the way for the Rothschild Greater Israel Project.
Now that the Jewish money power has been so successful in wiping away Christianity and Christian moral standards, they no doubt intend to rely on the surveillance state and technological tranny to control us, both to protect their holdings and likely also to get rid of any competition. It would seem that the rise of Hitler by Germany which had thrown off the yoke of Christianity a hundred years ago has taught the Jews absolutely nothing. Throwing out the universal God of love and his broad neighbor principle simply leaves everyone in a world ruled by the self love of the most powerful and governed by deception, fear, and by hate.
@Derek Rutter:
Regarding your view of climate weapons being phoney, you are most probably right.
These supposed weapons are blared ad nauseam in all media including the alternative ones.
The truth is that this psi-op is warfare against God, the same as Evolutionary Theory (still only a theory and another psi-op) is.
The satanic idea behind both deceptions is to sabotage access of our souls to the Father’s house by inciting us to choose the wrong way while we are still alive and walking on this earth.
When the day of final judgment arrives there will be no more mercy, but before of that fateful final day there will be sent us many signs, some rather harmless but also terrible ones, natural calamities, sent by God, as inspiration for all persons to begin to think about really important things, that are very different to the normal material pursuits.
The purpose of those calamities is to provide a last chance to repent and change ways for those persons who still aren’t entirely in thrall of Satan.
There will be loss of prized possessions, great fear, that forces the realization that there is a superior power whose will they are unable to resist, and against which not even Satan the prince of this material world can shield or protect them.
There will be many dead also, but even a last second repentance and sincere call to God for mercy is of help to the soul.
It’s all about souls.
Material bodies are less important and their purpose is only for a fallen soul to mature, and not to amass great riches and power.
Satan has no power against God’s visitations, but what he (or rather it) certainly can do via his minions of earth is to propagate the idea that God has nothing to do with it all, that the calamities are merely man-made.
And this will have the effect of distracting people from the thoughts God intended for them to have, as a last recourse.
The consequence: less persons turning themselves to God.
Obviously, if you stand before a life or death situation, your thoughts will be very different if you see the situation as God-made or man-made.
The idea behind the psi-op is that people don’t think a out Good in midst of a God-sent calamity.
Truly, a sabotage against God and against us.
Thank you for your insightful comment, Derek, I hope it’s of good at least for some of the readers, especially for those who are in danger of falling to the constant deceptions of Satan’s human minions.
Quite in agreement with Amalek re. Chris Hedges.
I came to that conclusion shortly after Oct 7, ’23 having read one of his articles on the subject
OH, POOR PALESTINIANS AND JEWS, INNOCENT VICTIMS OF ZIO-NAZIS.
Zionists bad, Jews good—yeah, right, do you see what he is doing here?
As if snake had shed its skin and now you go with a shovel, whacking at the empty skin.
Israel, Zionism, Netanyahu, none of them matter, they are just empty cutouts for the real cosmic menace
THE JEW, Satan’s hammer against the world, and it was always thus since Day One.
And Germans of the Third Reich were the avatar of the just and righteous society.
Trust Chris Hedges to dump a turd into the punch bowl.
Your first line above “Nazi like atrocities” they didn’t commit atrocities.
I never had to unlearn the holohoax because never was there a time when I believed it was real. My father told me so.
Cry me a river, and then drown yourself in it.